Journalism, Technology, History

Oh, it sounds like a familiar tune

Insert “blank” for music The music industry and innovation will cease to exist unless there is an investment in music, Burnett says. “There are a lot of people making a lot of money today, but the creators of the music...

That sustainability question

It is not about just refashioning journalism, it’s about reinventing the business proposition for news. Janet Coats of the Patterson Foundation wrote yesterday: Instead of looking to the past, to the old buckets for ad revenue, we’d better focus on...

Mark your calendar for multimedia boot camp

The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute will offer two Multimedia Boot Camps for Journalism Professionals and Educators in August, 2010 and one in November 2010. **MULTIMEDIA CLASSES IN 2010: ** • Multimedia Boot Camp: Aug. 2-6, 2010 • Multimedia Boot Camp:...

Times were harsh

My cousin, Amy Clark, won an essay writing award earlier this month for a piece based on an oral history recorded in the mid-1980s of my grandmother, Emma Stanley Edwards, and her  sisters. Amy. an English professor, says the piece...

A tale from the delta of Social Media

While it doesn’t reach the fame of Dave Carroll and United Airlines’ breaks guitars, Kevin Slimp of Knoxville experienced the power of Social Media on Sunday when he posted this note at 11:32 a.m. Sunday on Facebook about his Delta...

Anonymous commenters could face their own Ice Age

The debate about comments on news sites continues to generate, … er, comment and momentum is building to somehow put personal reputation back behind the words. The latest piece I’ve seen is Neil Swidey’s piece on Boston.com, which takes a...

Not everything stays in Vegas

E.W. Scripps editors, digital managers, corporate interactive folks and corporate top exductives gathered in Las Vegas last week for two days of meetings. One of the exercises we did was to sit down for a short video on journalism and...

Knoxville.com does Bonnaroo like no one else

If you’re into Boonaroo, there’s no better place to follow happenings (whether you are there or not) than our Bonnaroo section on knoxville.com and our Bonnaroonews Twitter stream. We’ve posting our stuff and linking to the rest! We have one...
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